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Campaign slogans don't mean much, and if you're using them as an argument either for support or against someone, there's not a lot of thinking going on.
Again, show actions that lead to results and not just regurgitate the claim. No matter how snapy the sound bite, it just isn't evidence.
The article from Heritage laid it out how burdensome regulation on businesses are harming people in the AA sector more so than any other sector. Further, Unemployment in the black community rose under Obama. Now, did he cause that? Or are we to believe that only republican Presidents cause things, and demo Presidents are never to be held accountable for anything they pursue in their agendas? Because, I gotta tell ya Joe, it appears all you are doing is making excuses for him.
Black unemployment was 12.7% when Obama took office, today it is 14.3%, and 41% in the black youth sector...Now you tell me, would that be excused away under a republican? I don't think so.
"Since Obama made that speech, he has served almost four years in the White House, and African-Americans’ median wealth has crashed, their wages have flat lined, their unemployment has spiked, and their political power has waned.
The metaphorical bullet wound has turned septic.
Obama used his speech to call for stronger African-American families, saying, “If we want to stop the cycle of Poverty, we must start with our families.”
But the percentage of adult African-Americans in poverty rose from 19.8 percent in 2007 to 23 percent in 2010, according to the Census Bureau. The percentage of African-American children in poverty rose from 34.5 percent to 39.1 percent in 2010. African-Americans’ formal Unemployment Rate jumped from 9 percent in June 2007 to 14.5 percent this August.
And the reality is worse: The percentage of African-Americans in the workforce fell from 58.6 percent in June 2007, down to 52.8 percent in August 2012. Less than half of young African-American men have full-time jobs."
Read more: Under Obama, black unemployment up; wealth, wages down | The Daily Caller